About us
Founded in 2010, YES! Tanzania supports organisations in the most disadvantaged urban communities of Tanzania to transform young people's lives through sport.
We know that sport, delivered in the right way, can help vulnerable young people build the skills they need to grow and flourish throughout their lives.
The amazing organisations we support give opportunities to young people facing huge challenges – from living on the street, to unemployment or not being in education. They also help young people facing barriers to taking part in sport, including girls and those with a disability.
Together, through sport, we give them resilience, confidence, self-esteem and positive attitudes, as well as life and leadership skills, and the knowledge they need to protect their health – vital in a country with one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in the world.
How we help
We support organisations to change young people's lives through sport in 3 ways:
- Planning – we help organisations to produce a sport for development strategy and annual plan.
- Programme design and delivery – we help organisations design sport for development programmes and activities and provide training for coaches and leaders to deliver these. We provide a small amount of funding to help ensure there are adequate resources for the activities. We also encourage organisations to collaborate with each other and help them to develop proposals, secure funding and implement projects to build their capacity to deliver their sport for development plans and activities.
- Monitoring, evaluation & learning – we help organisations produce a monitoring & evaluation framework to measure the impact of their sport for development activities. We also host an annual group training and shared learning event and other workshops to encourage best practice. .
All our support is free, and tailored to each organisation, and everything we do is based around 3 pillars: increasing participation and inclusion, youth development, and sustainability.
How we work
YES! Tanzania is based and registered as a charity in Scotland, and we work in partnership with Umoja Tanzania, who are responsible for delivering our work on the ground.
We proactively look for organisations that meet our criteria (see below) to support. We then meet with and gather information about them to assess their suitability to take part in our programme.
We're currently supporting organisations in Arusha, Moshi and Dar-es-Salaam and Mwanza but want to expand to other areas in Tanzania over the next few years.
The organisations we work with:
- focus on improving the lives of the most disadvantaged young people.
- provide (or seek to provide) inclusive sport and/or sport for development activities within their programmes.
- are registered as a non-governmental organisation, community-based organisation or a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee.
- have been operating for at least 2 years with at least 1 full-time member of staff.
- are able to provide annual accounts for the most recent 2 years.
- provide activities which are open to all sections of the community regardless of gender or religion (no proselytising).
You can find out more about us, our plans and our theory of change in our Strategic Plan 2019-2022.
Our values and principles
- We believe in the ability of sport to empower young people to fulfil their potential in life.
- We believe that all young people should have the opportunity to participate in sport regardless of gender, ability or religion.
- We believe that support should be targeted at those who are most in need
- We believe in a youth-centred approach and that young people are listened to when identifying their needs.
- We believe that building the capacity of leaders and organisations is the key to sustainable development.
- We value partnerships that are based on openness, honesty and transparency.
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